148 YETMINSTER CHURCH. 



name from being maintained by estates in both these parishes. 

 Some illustrious names are found in each of these lists, Yetminster 

 Prima having been held by William of Wykeham, Bishop of 

 Winchester, and founder of the two S. Mary Winton Colleges, 

 1361 ; by Henry Chicheley, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1397 ; by 

 James Stanley, Bishop of Ely, 1492 ; by Thomas Thirlby, Bishop 

 of Westminster, Norwich, and Ely, 1537 ; by Isaac Barrow, master 

 of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1671 ; and by Bishop Butler, author 

 of the "Analogy of Keligion," 1721. Yetminster Secunda, by 

 Chicheley, 1400 ; by William Dudley, Bishop of Durham, 1471 ; 

 by Reginald Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury and Cardinal, 1519 ; 

 and by Henry Cole, Provost of Eton, 1539 ; and Grimstone and 

 Yetminster by Thomas Polton, Bishop of Hereford, 1408 ; by 

 Hugh Parry, Bishop of S. David's, 1467 ; by William Barton, 

 Suffragan Bishop, 1515 ; and by John Elton, 1519 1547, an 

 ancestor of my own, and the founder of a Fellowship at B.N.C., 

 Oxford. 



The annual value of these Prebends at various periods may be 

 seen in the following table : 



1226. 1291. 1535. 



s. d. s. d. s. d. 



Yetminster and Grimstone ... 13 6 8 ... 20 ... 32 1 10| 



Yetminster Prima* 568 ... 8 13 4 ... 22 



Yetminster Secunda* 5 6 8 ... 800 ... 18 



Two of these viz., Yetminster Prima and Secunda are now 

 in lay hands, Mrs. Frances Jane Ffooks being the Lady of the 

 Manors thus denominated, while that of Yetminster and Grimstone 

 belongs in reversion to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Mrs. E. 

 H. Fitzherbert being at present the lessee. The fourth Manor, 

 which is called that of " Yetminster," without any further addition 

 to the name, was squeezed from the See of Sarum in the reign Of 

 Elizabeth, and belongs to Mr. Digby, of Sherborne Castle. 



To pass from the general history of the parish to the Church of 

 S. Andrew, which we are visiting to-day, it is hardly necessary to 



* Called "Prebenda Dni T'isij," i.e. Thydisii, and "Ricardi de 

 Coleshull," respectively, the holders in 1284. 



